Worlds of Knowledge in Women's Travel Writing rediscovers the works of a wide range of authors from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. A stowaway on a voyage circumnavigating the globe; a nineteenth-century visitor to schools in Japan; an Indian activist undertaking a pilgrimage to Iraq--these are some of the women whose experiences come to life in this volume. Worlds of Knowledge explores travel writing as a genre for communicating information...
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